QW2002 Paper 9T2

Dr. Nagesh Vempaty
(Aalayance Incorporated)

Cross Platform Framework For Integration Testing

Key Points

Presentation Abstract

Aalayance developed a cross platform open source framework for integration testing (CROSSFIT) to manage the integration testing of distributed applications. The key design goal of CROSSFIT was to be capable of managing the integration testing of distributed applications. To meet this goal, we came up with a distributed agent based architecture. CROSSFIT was also designed to be simple, portable, usable and flexible. It encourages automation of test suites. We have been using it extensively for more than a year now with great success. Our customers report testing time reductions of 70-80%. In this document, we share some of the design principles, the implementation strategies and the practical experiences.

About the Author

Dr. Nagesh Vempaty is responsible for development and engineering activities associated with new customers at Aalayance.
Dr. Vempaty's technical expertise is in large-scale software development and systems integration. As the CTO at Zoho, he was responsible for overall product development and for improving the availability, scalability and performance of Zoho's products. Prior to Zoho, Dr. Vempaty was the co-founder and CTO of hsupply.com. Prior to hsupply.com, Dr. Vempaty worked at Healtheon, Tenneco and NASA. Dr. Vempaty has managed several software development teams under extreme situations.

Dr. Vempaty received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and is a recipient of the Microelectronics and Computer Corporation Award for outstanding graduate research and the Gordon Bell Prize in parallel computing. He received his Master's in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and his Bachelor's in Compute Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Madras.